Re: [PATCH 4.4 20/43] mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table

[Kani, Toshi]

On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 13:31 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 03:17:00PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 06:27:24PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
 :
> > 
> > This patch causes the following build error on 4.4 arm64:
> > 
> > $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- O=build-arm64 defconfig
> > $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- O=build-arm64
> > 
> >   CC      arch/arm64/mm/mmu.o
> > ../arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c:701:5: error: redefinition of âpud_free_pmd_pageâ
> >  int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
> >      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In file included from ../arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:682:0,
> >                  from ../include/linux/mm.h:55,
> >                  from ../include/linux/mman.h:4,
> >                  from ../arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c:25:
> > ../include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:777:19: note: previous definition of âpud_free_pmd_pageâ was here
> >  static inline int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
> >                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ../arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c:706:5: error: redefinition of âpmd_free_pte_pageâ
> >  int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
> >      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In file included from ../arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:682:0,
> >                  from ../include/linux/mm.h:55,
> >                  from ../include/linux/mman.h:4,
> >                  from ../arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c:25:
> > ../include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:781:19: note: previous definition of âpmd_free_pte_pageâ was here
> >  static inline int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
> >                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > make[2]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:270: arch/arm64/mm/mmu.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [/home/drue/src/linux/4.4-rc/Makefile:969: arch/arm64/mm] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/drue/src/linux/4.4-rc/build-arm64'
> > make: *** [Makefile:152: sub-make] Error 2
> > 
> > 
> 
> Both of my arm64 devices built fine with this patch... It seems like
> the only way to hit that error is if HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP isn't set,
> which seems impossible since it is selected by ARM64...
> 
> Someone smarter than I might have more insight but this patch is
> unchanged from upstream so I can only assume that this error would
> manifest there as well.

It appears that HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP was introduced in 4.6 on arm64. 
Hence the problem in 4.4.

Thanks,
-Toshi